National environmental groups and local activists have been using the Keystone XL pipeline as a model aimed to prolonging government reviews of proposed pipeline routes and their environmental impact around the country.

Buena Vista County will be one of the many areas in the country affected by a pipeline if it passes. Residents of BV County expressed their concerns at a pipeline meeting on Dec. 3. Many of the comments were similar to ones heard around the country.

A growing number of farmers and ranchers in Kansas are trying to block high-voltage electric transmission lines from crossing their land to carry renewable energy from the Midwest to points east. Strange that these same folks vigorously promote the Keystone XL pipeline through the Sandhills of Nebraska, but an electric “pipeline” somehow is wrong.